Preparing for the Cleveland Browns is among the many challenges still facing Romeo Crennel's Kansas City Chiefs this week. / Charlie Riedel, AP

by Lindsay H. Jones, USA TODAY Sports

by Lindsay H. Jones, USA TODAY Sports

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Even though it has only been four days since one of his players committed a murder-suicide, the latter outside the Kansas City Chiefs facility, coach Romeo Crennel isn't expecting any more sympathy from around the league as he tries to get his team refocused on football.

"Once you step across the white line, nobody cares about what your problems are," Crennel said Wednesday. "You have to be ready to play football. So on Sunday, we're going to step across the white line, and we better be ready to play."

Wednesday marked the first full day of regular football operations for Chiefs players since linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, and then himself on Saturday morning. The Chiefs played - and won - a game at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday as players and coaches harnessed their emotions on one of the most surreal days in team history.

Now, as the Chiefs prepare to travel to play the Cleveland Browns this week, Crennel is trying to balance the day-to-day tasks of practice and meetings and the ongoing needs of his players and their families to deal with what happened with Belcher and Perkins.

Counselors have been available to players, coaches and other Chiefs' personnel all week.

"I try to make it normal. But then you have moments. You get through the moments, and then you go on," Crennel said. "What you hope is that emotion that they used, and the counting on each other and leaning on each other, that they are able to carry that forward into the next game."